Posted on 07/12/2005 3:31:58 PM PDT by Crackingham
That clearly was the intent of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove in leaking to a reporter that former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV's wife, Valerie Plame, was a CIA agent. To try to conceal the fact that the president had lied to the American public about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program, Rove attempted to destroy the credibility of two national security veterans and send an intimidating message to any other government officials preparing to publicly tell the truth.
Rove's lawyer now says that Rove didn't break the law against naming covert agents because he didn't know Plame's name and therefore couldn't have revealed it. Perhaps he can use such a technicality in court, but in the meantime he should resign immediately — or be fired by the president — for leaking classified information, trying to smear Wilson and possibly endangering Plame's life.
"The White House promised if anyone was involved in the Valerie Plame affair, they would no longer be in this administration," said Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). "I trust they will follow through on this pledge."
The background on this story is crucial. Ambassador Wilson had been honored as a patriot by President George H.W. Bush for standing up to Saddam Hussein in a face-to-face confrontation in Baghdad on the eve of the Persian Gulf War. But in 2003, Wilson committed an unpardonable crime in the eyes of the second Bush White House. He exposed its lies about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs.
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Nice of Fox News to catch up with FR. That was reported on FR back in 2003 when the controversy first erupted.
The dems are on H & C right now discussing this. The dems are going crazy.
Thank you. Good research.
They're not "going," they're "there."
Got a feeling the dems are running scared right now on this. Some of the smarter ones realize they are already beginning to twist in the wind. The rest are just useful idiots spewing....like the guy that was just on Hannity & Colmes.
Karl Rove and Tom DeLay for the Supreme Court...
mass heart attacks
Only if the messenger is Billy Jeff.
No kidding!
Bill Press just sat there and lied his *ss off. They have the gall to spew that crap in our faces THINKING we don't know any better. It makes me sick!
It's a good thing we're not in D.C., isn't it?
For sure!
OG, now we are talking about reparations on H & C with Michael Bond, son of Julian Bond, the NAACP racist! Tonight isn't a good night for television, it seems. lol!
I thinks I'm changing to HGTV or FOOD TV. lol!
That get faxed every morning to all news' organizations according to ED Hill on Fox & Friends this morning. They even fax them to her and all Fox News folks (the so-called Republican mouthpieces according to what what's his face said during the White house press briefing today). lol! It was either David Gregory or Terry Moran. I can't remember which *ss it was.
You need to download Google Earth; you'd be amazed at how "soothing" it is looking at all those sat photos.
The LA Slimes report and only liberals listen.
I got home just in time to see the end of the Bond fiasco. Ugh. My husband had gone to bed (and it's only 8:30 here) because he couldn't take it. I think Bill Press about gave him a stroke.
Interesting that David Gregory didn't look happy tonight. Perhaps he is realizing how big a fool he made of himself.
I am beginning to think that Scott is out there like Boo Boo...sort of nice and naive and trying to do the right thing; meanwhile, the reporters are like the Ranger ...trying to save that pic-a-nic basket.
Karl Rove is Yogi.
Well, I think it is a good analogy. LOL!
This country has been long overdue a good media housecleaning and I welcome it with open arms.
Geeze - guess she had covert pregnancies, eh?
That's a pretty good analogy except I think you'd have to import a villain from another cartoon to more suitably represent the press- maybe the Tazmanian Devil or that little chicken hawk in the Foghorn Leghorn cartoons who was constantly asking, "Is that a chicken?"
Moonbat Award Winner
That's the point. Rove warned off Cooper from writing an inaccurate article. Cheney didn't send Wilson, his wife did.
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